Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

by Robert Wright

“Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.”

The Four Foundations of Mindfulness—

metta, or loving-kindness,

accepting, even embracing, an unpleasant feeling can give you a critical distance from it that winds up diminishing the unpleasantness.

Vipassana, derives from the Theravada lineage.

“Form is emptiness.”

all things are “without essence, but with qualities that can be seen.”

Moral meaning is, in that sense, inherent in life.